Atwater Dunkel

Brewed by Atwater Block Brewery
Style: Dunkel
Detroit, Michigan USA

Pours coffee brown with a foamy tan head. I did not enjoy the sour aroma and couldn’t make much out of it. The flavor was sour and malty. Overall, not my favorite.

(bonus brew from doclock)dark brown body with red highlights.super thick and creamy lightbrown head.aroma is a mix of figs,brown sugar,and malts.flavor is a mix of sourness,smoke,liquorice,and chocolate.not bad but i could have done without the sourness.

Atwater Dunkel. 12 oz. bottle from BOTMC. Drank 6/5/06. Deep, dark amber. Nice red hues when held to the light. 1cm. tan head. Nice layer of foam, a little lace. Not a strong aroma. Little bit of a spicy german yeast character. Little plum, raisin type of aroma. Little malty bready aroma. Decently balanced with a nice sweet and spicy finish. Sweeter than your avg. dunkel. Little bit of a fruity character. Palate is light to medium with lower than avg. carb. Overall - best of the BOTMC this month (may) for me. This one’s got some good interesting flavors and goes down easy. Nice interpretation of the style.

This was a beer of the month club beer. The nose is of slight roasty malt with a butter background. Flavor has chocolate, butter, and fruit with smooth and crisp finish. I has a slight creamy texture to it as well. Okay beer. At least it is clean.

I was hoping for more with this beer, but perhaps my bottle was a little old or exposed for too long. The aroma was somewhat nutty but the taste has a sour flavor to it which I did not like. Give it a try for yourself and perhaps you will like it.

Deep dark brown pour with a substantial and long-lasting off-white head. Flavors of roasted caramel malt, with touches of smoke and charcoal. A touch of sourness in the finish, subtle, but it’s there...and that distracted. The flavors are fairly robust which makes the thin watery texture all the more surprising. Not bad, but could stand a fuller body.
Earlier Rating: 2/3/2005 Total Score: 3.4
Nice malting...roasted flavor pervades with a rather too spritzy mouthfeel (overcarbonated), but a nice blend of sweet malt with slight hoppy bite. Decent, if not remarkable. Certainly drinkable.

from the bottle. poured a dark mahagony with a light tan head. aroma cheeries, brown sugar, malts, chocolate, dark fruits. flavorthe brown sugar comes out first, than a hint of sourness, malts, fruity with a nice hop dryness, nutty. good beer. easy drinking beer.

12 oz. bottle. Pours a deep, nearly opaque, ruby red with a thick off-white head that lasted through the entire glass. For a dark beer, I thought the aromas were on the light side. Traces of malt and caramel were present. Flavor I thought was also a bit light for a beer advertising itself as a dark lager. In fact, if I hadn’t seen the beer or read the label in advance, I’d almost wonder if this was a light beer, that’s how minimal the flavors were. Malt, caramel, and unsweetened iced tea flavors were present but very subdued. Watery mouthfeel. Slight bitter hops finish.